The Weather Gcnerally fair today and to- morrow; ris'n" temperature to- day and in north tomorrow. L 4 A6F .AAt 4t an 1Iait Editorials Je Defendrai A La Mort Confirmation For Idealists VOL. XLVI. No. 22. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935 PRICE FIVE CENTS Council Prepares To Prevent Dirty Election Activity Will Not Permit Polling Until Student Directories Are Published Require 'C' Average Of Class Candidates Only Students Presenting Identification Cards May Cast Votes By WILLIAM J. DE LANCEY With the first literary class elec- tions of the 1935-36 school year less than two weeks in the offing, the Men's Council is formulating plans which will prevent a repetition of last year's election activities, de- scribed as "the dirtiest in the history -of the school." The senior class elections in all schools under the supervision of the Men's Council are scheduled for Wed- nesday, Oct. 30, if the new Student Directories are available at that time. In case the appearance of the Direc- tories is delayed, the elections will be held a week later, William Dixon, '36, president of the Council, an- nounced. Identification cards which have been revived this semester after not being used for several years will be an absolute requisite to voting, Dixon stated. No student will be allowed to cast a ballot unless the election of- ficials are satisfied with his identity, Dixon emphasized. Proxy Voting Investigated This action on the part on the Council is directed towards prohib- iting situations which last year al- lowed charges of illicit voting to be flung between election officials and chairmen of the party caucuses. The now defunct Undergraduate Council, which has been -succeeded by the Mn Council, investigated many re- ports that proxy voting had been pro- lifically indulged in, that freshmen had been utilized to pose as sopho- mores, and that certain students had voted as many as four times in the same election. As a result of the investigation, 14 students were barred from further participation in class politics during the ensuing year. Dixon pointed out, however, that the restrictions werec valid only during the last school year. A ruling decrees that students de- sirous of competing in the class elec- tions must obtain an eligibility cer- tificate from the Office of the Dean of Students. An average of C is necessary to be eligible, Dixon stated. Must Have C Average The senior elections will be held in all schools under the Council's su- pervision, namely, the literary college, the engineering college, the music school, the education school, the bus- iness administration school, and the architectural school. In all divisions of the University supervised by the Men's Council, the elections will name students to fill the offices of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. On the junior class ballot there will also appear officers for the J-Hop. In accordance with the custom of al- ternating the executive control of the dance, the engineering school this year will furnish the chairman and two committeemen. Other elective officers for the J-Hop include: fivel committeemen from th'e 'literary school, one committeeman from the architecture college, the education school, and the business administra- tion school. No Action Taken Dixon stated that there has been no definite action taken regarding the senior prom, but that for the fresh- man and sophomore classes the fol- lowing rules shall apply: The mem- bership, which is appointed, shall total no more than eight, three of which will be from the literary col- lege and three, including the chair- man, from the engineering school. With the exception of the dance committee there will be only two ap- pointed committees for the three lower classes. These are the execu- tive and financial committees and will be composed of five members. Six committees of five members each will be appointed from the senior class. Honor councilmen, Dixon pointed out, are elected in the pro- fessional schools. Here's Hoping Your Parents' Connubial Life Was Very Rosy PALO ALTO, Oct. 23. -If your mother chased your father all over the house with a rolling pin, the sea of matrimony for you will probably be very troubled. But i on the other hand, your parents led a happily mar- ried life, your marital experience is pretty sure to be rosy. If it'doesn't work out that way, the opinion of Dr. Louis M. Terman, Stanford University psychology pro- fessor, which was stated here today, is wrong. Dr. Terman recently com- pleted a survey on sex problems for the National Research Council. Questioning more than 600 persons on the degree of marital happiness of their parents, these are among the tendencies he found: One-third of the group were hap- pily married, and one-third were divorced. Wives quarrel more with their par- ents than do husbands. Men are more attached to their parents than are women. Mother-in-laws are a cause of con- flict even among the happily married women, 55 per cent of them declared. Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' Will Be Given Ruddigore Or The Witch's Curse' Also In Program Of Play Production "Twelfth Night" and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "Ruddigore or the Witch's Curse," will open Play Production's season this year, Valen- entine B. Windt, director, announced yesterday. "Although a Shakespearean play offers many difficulties in produc- tion," Mr. Windt said, "the excellent training which it offers to student actors, and the encouraging recep- tions which local audiences have given to previous presentations, justified our selection of 'Twelfth Night' as the opening show." This play will be pre- sented four days, beginning Wednes- day, Nov. 13, and continuing through Saturday, Nov. 16. A specially-priced matinee will be given Friday. This is the sixth Shakespearean play to be presented by Play Produc- tion, the others being "The Taming of the Shrew," "Romeo and Juliet," "All's Well That Ends Well," "A Mid- summer Night's Dream," and the lat- est, "Othello," which was given last summer. "In order to give students who are not enrolled in Play 'Production a chance in campus dramatics," Mr. Windt said, "we are offering them the opportunity of trying out for singing parts in "Ruddigore," which Play Production is giving in conjunc- tion with the School of Music and the department of physical educa- tion." All students interested in re- porting for tryouts for the operetta, which will be given the week of Dec. 8, were asked to report to Mr. Windt between 3 and 5 p.m. today, and 11 a.m. to noon tomorrow. The music for this production will be in charge of the School of Music, while the women's department of physical ed- ucation will train the dance choruses. Previous productions in which Play Production has combined with these two departments are "Iolanthe," "The Gondoliers," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "The Chocolate Sol- dier." Casting For Mirror To Start In January Dr. Heber D. Curtis, director of the University Observatories, stated yesterday that casting will commence for the proposed reflector for the pro- jected University Bass Lake Obser- vatory about January first of next year. The disc will be cast along the same lines as the one which was re- cently removed from the annealing Plans Made For Autumn Class Games Freshmen, Sophomores Meet Today To Organize For Contest Clash Saturday On SouthFerry Field Games To Consist Of Three Events; Flag Rush, Cane Spree, PillowFight Plans for the freshman-sophomore class games to be held at 2 p.m. Sat- day on South Ferry Fieldsand. for the organization of both classes were announced yesterday by William R. Dixon, '36, president of the Men's Council. Freshmen will meet at 4:15 p.m. today in the Natural Science Audi- toriumand sophomores will meet at -he same time in Room 25, Angel Hall, to organize their forces for the traditional interclass mock warfare.- Both classes will go to the field en masse. The freshmen will congre- gate at the southwest corner of Wa- terman Gymnasium at 1:30 p.m. Sat- urday and the sophomores will neet at the same time in front of the Union. There will be three games, the cane spree, the pillow fight, and the flag rush. For the cane spree each class will select eight representa- tives, each pairing off with a repre- sentative of his opponents. Each pair will be given an axe handle which will be grasped firmly by both con- testants. Each will then attempt to wrest the axe handle from his op- ponent, the victor being the one who bests his opponent two out of threej times. Representatives will be chosen and1 pairings will be made as in the caneI spree for the pillow fight. Pillows will consist of sacks filled with saw- dust and will be used to knock the opponent off the stuffed saw horse he will be on. Classes will participate in the flag rush in groups. A flag will be mounted at one end of the field which it will be the second-years class' duty. to protect. If the freshmen are successful in removing the flag from1 the mast they will have won the games. The Varsity Band will play and there will be a loudspeaker system to announce the progress of the battle' under tentative arrangements. Black Friday, traditionally the day preceding the day of the games, will be tomorrow, Dixon said. Violations of decency during Black Friday acti- vities will be strictly and rigorously dealt with by the disciplinary com- mittee of the Men's Council and the University disciplinary committee whether such activities are on Uni- versity properties or not, Dixon said. Naval Officer Dies In Hospital Here' William H. Stephenson, Naval lieu-] tenant, retired, died late Tuesday at St. Joseph's Hospital here.1 He and Mrs. Stephenson had made their home here to be with their two children, William B., '37, and Anna M., who are attending the University. Lieut. Stephenson saw service in both the Spanish-American and World1 Wars during his 35 years in the Unit- ed States Navy. Two Students Are Granted Readmission Distributions Of N. S. L. Leaflets Led To Their Suspension Oct. 17 Give Guarantees Of Future Orderliness Promise In Writing Is Accepted By Deans As Both Attend Classes Edith Folkoff, '38, and Ascher Op- ler, '38, attended their classes yester- day in good standing following the lifting of their suspension from the University for violation of a Uni- versity rule prohibiting distribution of printed matter on the campus without proper authorization. Both students were reinstated after fulfilling the terms of their suspen- sion by giving "reasonable guaranty in writing to the Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and to the Dean of Students and the, Dean of Women respectively, that in the future they would refrain from willful violation of the rules of the University. Miss Folkoff's application for read-, mission was accepted Tuesday, and Opler was reinstated yesterday. The two sophomores, both members, of the National Student League, were, suspended Oct. 17 by the University Committee on Student Conduct for "wilful and inexcusable" violation of the regulation. The specific offense for which they were punished consisted of distribut- ing a leaflet, prepared by a N.S.L. committee, after they had been in- formed by Shirley W. Smith, secre- tary of the University, that their ac- tion was contrary to a University rul- I ing. According to the report of the Sub- committee on Discipline of the Uni- versity Committee, Miss Folkoff and Opler were notified of the existence of the rule by Mr. Smith on Oct. 7. On the following day, according to the report, both students again passed out leaflets and again were warned against a continuation of their ac- tions. The following day, Opler again dis- tributed leaflets on campus and de- clared his intention of continuing to do so, while Miss Folkoff refused toi state whether she would or would not.] Miller Will Head , Medical Freshmen James Miller became president of the freshman class of the medical school as a result of the class election yesterday, William R. Dixon, '36, pres-i ident of the Men's Council, announced last night. Edward B. Marshall was elected president of the sophomore class of the medical school Tuesday. Raymond J. Koykka was elected vice-president of the freshman class; LeRoy .Bryant, secretary; Robert G. Carney, treasurer; Joseph Kerzmann, two-year member of the Honor Coun- cil; and Robert G. Rickart, one-year member of the Honor Council. Other sophomore class officers were elected as follows: vice-president, Kyle E. Block; secretary, Jack M. Ja- coby; treasurer, Roy F. Herschel- mann; and as a member of the Honor Council, John D. Morgan. Ethiopians - Desperate Last Stand Against Fascist Armies Prepare For Saturday Classes Successful In Distributing Peak Load Compulsory Saturday classes have successfully accomplished their pur- pose of more evenly distributing the class load for the first semester of the 1935-36 school year, it wasstated yesterday by Prof. George R.sLaRue, head of the zoology department and chairman of the faculty committee on exemptions. Approved by the Executive Com- mittee of the Literary College in May to relieve the class room burdens then critically present, compulsory Satur- day classes have removed the strain from the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday classes, Professor LaRue stat- ed. The peak loads have been cut down to the extent that congestion does not exist in any of the recitation periods in the literature- school. To effect a transfer of the. peak loads the executive committee decreed thdt each department would be com- pelled to schedule 10 per cent of its class hours for Saturday. Professor LaRue emphasized the fact that al- though students were allowed a free choice of classes many of the Satur- day sections were filled and closed before those of any other days. Members of the faculty committee were impressed with the smooth func- tioning of the new plan. Misgivings had been voiced in some quarters re- garbling the student acceptance of the new idea, but the work of the exemp- tions committee revealed active stu- dent discontent to be at a minimum, Professor LaRue stated. A large ma- jority of students who were exempted gained the privilege because they had jobs conflicting and because to have a Saturday class would be to include an unneeded element. Professor LaRue cast a new inter- pretation on exemptions when' he stated that a certain percentage of exemptions was vital, for the Univer- sity would be unable to house all the literature students during one day. He also revealed the fact that to gain this requisite number of exemptions no pressure was applied, the number being obtained by a natural function- ing of the registration process. Beer Baron Of 'U Dri Is Owner Club, Foun inkless Era' Shot Down Of 'Silver Dollar' 'Dutch Schultz,' d Wounded NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 23.- (/)- Arthur "Dutch Schultz" Slegen-E heimer, former New York beer baron,I and two of his henchmen were shot and wounded by two unknown assail-c ants in a chop-house (at 12 E. Park1 St.) tonight. Police identified Schultz's compan- ions as Otto Berman, 46, of the Hotel President, New York City,, and Ber-t nard Rosencrantz, 36. The wounded mnen were taken to hospitals. Schultz, although struck by more than one bullet, remained conscious and walked to an ambu- lance. City hospital authorities said at 11:05 p.m. that Schultz's condition was so critical that he was not ex- pected to live. Schultz had been at liberty under $50,000 bail on a charge of income tax evasion. Arrested a month ago in. Perth Amboy, he has fought removal, to the southern district of New York, where the indictment charging him with income tax evasion was returned.; At the present time, his attorneys are engaged in a move to have Fed- eral Judge William Clark declared in- eligible to sit at the removal proceed- ings. They filed an affidavit charging the jurist with prejudice, but Judge Clark yesterday ruled himself eligible to hear the case. Schultz immediate- ly filed an appeal with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Phil- adelphia. One of the most famous of New York's prohibition days night clubs and speakeasies was the "Silver Dol- lar," owned and operated by one Ar- thur Slegenheimer-more popularly known as "Dutch Schultz." Haunt of the big city's most fam- ous night hawks, the Silver Dollar was the nemesis of the very drunk; tightly inlaid in the colorful linoleum floor was a collection of shiny quar- ters, half dollars and silver dollars. Free entertainment was provided for the patrons, who lingered on for hours watching those who had had just a little too much grovel on the floor in an attempt to obtain the tempting coins. The large main room, which at the noon hour served as a respectable business-man's lunch room, was dec- orated on the scheme of a German beer garden, with brightly checkered table clothes, large steins, and an old- fashioned German band to provide entertainment. The Silver Dollar passed on into fame with the passing of prohibition amidst much mourn- ing. The lure of the linoleum dioor, To Present New Norwegian Play HereTonight. Mime. Borgny Hammer,1 Cast To Produce Egge's 'Love AndFriendship' "Love and Friendship," a new com- edy by the famous Norwegian dra- matist, Peter Egge, will be presented at 8:15 p.m. today in the Lydia Men-r delssohn Theatre by a New York cast headed by Madame Borgny Hammei of the New York Norwegian Theatre. Although Peter Egge is noted as ar author of plays dealing with human temperaments, "Love and Friend- ship" tells the story of a literature professor who meets and marries a beautiful but not-too-talented auth- oress, and then finds himself in a sit- uation, reminiscent of the action in Noel Coward's "Private Lives." Distinguished artists who are as- sisting Madame Hammer in "Love and Friendship" and in Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken," which she is presenting tomorrow night, in- clude Arvid Paulson, Irving Mtchell, Elizabeth Cerf, Joseph Singer, Betsy Marvin, and Madame Hammer's daughter, Borgny Noreen. Madame Hammer is making her fourth successful American tour this season. She appeared in Ann Arbor 12 years ago, when she presented a part of her Ibsen repertoire, for which she has become famous. Ibsen's "When We Dead Awaken" develops the general theme of an ar- tist who so sublimates his ideas and forms that he loses his own soul, and it is not until the meets once again his former model,.played by Madame Hammer, that he again sets out to regain it. Cowboys Held In Canyon By Burning Brush LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23. - (ID) - A score of cowboys were believed trapped in a canyon by clouds of smoke, as fire and gale wrought an estimated $1,000,000 damage today in Southern California. An emergency call was made for gas masks to be used in attempts to rescue the cowboys from Corral Canyon of the Malibu area - beach resort of movie stars. They were reported struggling to save livestock from the flames. Four brush fires, the worst in years, raged through as manyoutlying areas and even licked at the fringes of sub- urbs. For a time, Los Angeles Harbor was gray with dust whipped up by winds that howled at 45 to 50 miles an Natives Massed Between Ogaden Desert And Only Railroad InCountry Reports Say Italy Has Captured Gitle Selassie Consults Oracle To Determine Date For Great Advance ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 23. -() - Ethiopian warriors are massing in the mountain passes that lie between the Ogaden desert and the dark em- pire's only railroad for a desperate stand against the armies of Gen. Rudolfo Granziani .one of Emperor Haile Selassie's principal warlords re- ported today. Dejazmatch Nasibu, governor of fertile Harar province in the south- east, arrived at Biredawa on the rail- way, with the news of the mountain concentration. (A Reuters dispatch said a heavy engagement was reported under way on the southern front between the forces of the Ras Desta Wemtu, Se- lassie's son-in-law, and Italian troops on the right wing of the Webbe Shi- beli river front. Ras Destu's troops, 200,000 strong, previously were reported marching Sown the Webbe Shibeli valley to meet the advancing Italians. Fortresses Bombarded (Dispatches on Monday from both Rome and Mogadiscio, Italian Soma- liland, told of the bombardment and seizure of the Ethiopian fortress of Dagnerrei by native units of Gra- niani's armies, with losses on both ;ides. Subsequent and unconfirmed reports said the Italian forces had rapttred Gitle, northeastof Dagner- rei.) In the capital Selassie consulted his oracle and soothsayer and on the ad- vice of the mystic, decided not to go north to the Dessye front until af- ;er Nov. 2, the anniversary of his ;oronation. Evil might befall Ethiopia, the ;oothsayer said, if the Negus should 3o to the front prematurely, but suc- 'ess surely would follow if they wait- 'd until after the coronation cere- mony. IL DUCE TAKES STAND ROME, Oct. 23. --() -Premier Mussolini, it was reported reliably tonight, considers that League of Na- ions sanctions against Italy all but bar Italian-Ethiopian peace negotia- ,ions between his country, France and Great Britain. Il Duce's asserted attitude was dis- .losed as new hope for peace in Eu- rope and in Africa arose from authori- tative Italian quarters. Withdrawals of one division of Ital- ian troops from the African colony :f Libya, it was officially indicated, was likely, and a government spokes- man expressed optimism over "un- 2onfirmed reports" that Great Brit- ain contemplates withdrawal of four big warships from the Mediterranean. In official quarters, where reference was made to Italy's willingness to talk about the Ethiopian dispute, it was stated that "so long as the sanction machine works at Geneva" direct ne- gotiations between the three powers would be "difficult." The statement indicated, an in- formed source said, that Premier Mus- solini wishes diplomats at Geneva to check the drive for sanctions against Italy before peace negotia- tions begin. From a high source came an ex- pression of belief that "the danger of hostilities with Great Britain has been reduced by developments of the past few days." New Deal Program Discussed By Ford The development of the Roosevel- tian program since 1931 was dis- cussed by Prof. Robert S.Ford of the economics department before a meet- ing of the Citizen's Council held last night at the court house. The division of authority between Harry L. Hopkins, WPA administra- tor, and Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior and PWA administrator, uioc ci raccaA Iby frnfacrcn,. P+I ,., Students Who Work In Library Stacks Are True 'Forgotten Men' By RICHARD G. HERSHEY These are the days when the "for- gotten men" are supposedly being re- membered by either the national or the state governments. But there are still at least three men who are for- gotten by Mr. Roosevelt and the entire student body. These are the students who work in the stacks of the General Library. Perhaps no three men receive more threats and maledictions from stu- dents for wasting the latters' time. But there are, it seems, many reasons for the long waits at the charging desk, and these men are qualified to explain these reasons. They know. To the eight floors of stacks, only three students are assigned to get books. One man, perhaps the busiest, gets all the ordered books located on floors one and two. Another man has for his "beat," the third and fourth When asked what was perhaps the' busiest time he ever experienced, one of the students said that once in two and one half hours there were calls for more than 500 books. That is a book on the average of every half minute. All the men working in the stacks emphasized the importance of writ- ing all the call numbers of the book desired. "For," one of them said, "there are now more than 1,000,000 volumes in the library. If the call number is not exactly right, we will look two or three rows or shelves away from where the book really is and thus be unable to find it." One instance was cited where a student wanted an English transla- tion of Plato's Republic. He mis- copied the call number of the volume